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More than just identifying with Bottlecap's precarious position in the entertainment industry, Gomez's own personality seems to shine through in almost every character and situation. The third-person narrator is just a thin cover for Gomez to make explicit comments about his characters or settings. It's hard not to wonder exactly how many of the funny little stories in the novel actually happened to Gomez or one of his friends at some point...
...interviewer, her eyes darting around the room instead. Why is she so self-conscious about self-examination? Blige says she only just started to build up her self-esteem. "I hurt myself because I didn't love myself," she says, then proceeds to analyze herself in the third-person style favored by Bob Dole. "I didn't like Mary, I didn't care about Mary, Mary didn't finish [high school] and did a lot of stuff she had no business doing because she didn't care about herself...
...describes himself as South Africa's foremost assassin, ran the Vlakplaas, a shadowy vigilante group created by the apartheid-era South African government to fight the ANC with whatever tactics it chose. He and Williamson were contemporaries. "The problem is that a lot of what De Kock says is third-person hearsay," says TIME Southern Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "De Kock is trying to ease his sentence by providing information, and so people are skeptical about his testimony. De Kock is a monstrous, truly evil man who is trying to make as many waves...
...Manchester for their debate, the whole game went public and hand to hand. Dole tried to parry the many punches with counterpunches and humor, or sometimes by ignoring them. He lost himself in numbers and bills and vetoes and at times was almost incomprehensible. He talked in the third-person absurd, and Buchanan was caught looking heavenward and rolling his eyes as Dole, head tilted to one side, a little ill at ease, struggled to get through his list...
Occasionally, however, reporters are caught up in an event, sometimes dangerously. Then no reconstruction or third-person testimony is needed. The truth of the event comes home to them with a painful certainty. Such was what happened last Thursday evening to Jamil Hamad, a reporter for 10 years in TIME's Jerusalem bureau. Fortunately, when the evening was over, no serious harm had come to Hamad or his family. But he had gained harsh new insight into a story he has long covered for us -- this time by becoming part...